You may or may not know that doctors in this country are
getting pampered and paid off by the pharmaceutical industry at large, at
an alarming rate. The perks run the gamut from visits by sexy sales reps offering
free lunch to hosted gourmet dinners and sizeable payments to act as “thought
leaders” for drug manufacturers.

About DiabetesMine

Welcome to DiabetesMine — a gold mine of information and encouragement created by and for people impacted by diabetes, in the form of “a diabetes newspaper with a personal twist.”

Since its inception in 2005, DiabetesMine has won a number of awards and accolades, including the 2013 Sharecare / American Diabetes Association distinction of “No.1 diabetes influencer site in the country.”

Our Mission

We offer a unique mix of news, views, reviews, guest posts, interviews, videos,
cartoons, Q&A and any other type of quality content useful for people
touched by diabetes.

We provide a strong voice of patient/consumer
advocacy for the diabetes community.

We aim to improve life with diabetes by
acting as a catalyst for innovation in diabetes tools and care.

Learn a little, laugh a little, at DiabetesMine.

DiabetesMine @ Healthline

Beginning in January 2015, DiabetesMine became
part of the Healthline family, a growing group of passionate individuals who
work each day to make the people of the world healthier through the power of
information.

All previous content dating back to the origin
of DiabetesMine in 2005 can now be found here, at our refreshed
Healthline-hosted home.

Don’t
Be Shy

Please comment on our articles! We may not agree with you,
but we DO appreciate the fact that you are talking back to us.

(Oh, and
remember: Nothing here qualifies as certified medical advice. We are
people with diabetes freely and openly sharing the wisdom of our collected
experiences. For your own treatment, you still need the professional advice and
care of a licensed medical professional. Kapeesh?)

Who Are We?

Founder and Editor Amy Tenderich

Inquisitive, perhaps-just-a-tad overly analytical PWD based in San Francisco, CA. Diagnosed with Type 1 in May 2003. BA in Journalism, MA in Communication Studies. After living overseas and many years of PR/marketing work for high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, became a freelance writer and consultant in the health and diabetes industries (and full-time mom). Co-author of the patient guidebook, Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes and founder of the DiabetesMine Design Challenge. Now a well-known ePatient advocate and frequent speaker at diabetes and health / social media events. Enjoys reading, cooking, aerobics, hiking, swimming, wine, weekend getaways, and spending time with her three spirited daughters. Her standing New Year’s Resolution since diagnosis: Enjoy Life.(See Amy’s bio page here)

Managing Editor Mike Hoskins

Diagnosed with type 1 at age 5 back in 1984, Mike’s the son of a type 1 mom who was diagnosed at the same young age in 1958. He’s been an insulin pumper since his final year of college in 2001, graduating not only from two shots a day but also with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Oakland University. A writer for most of his life, journalism has been a focus since middle school and has taken Mike to a variety of weekly, daily and specialty newspapers. Migrated in January 2004 from the Detroit, MI, suburbs to the Indianapolis, IN, area where he worked at a statewide legal newspaper for six years, just before finding the Diabetes Online Community and re-energizing his own local advocacy and personal diabetes writing style. Loves spending time with his wife Suzi and their black lab Riley, while also indulging his history buff tendencies and exploring family ancestry in his free time.

Columnist / Correspondent William “Lee” Dubois

Diagnosed as an adult with type 1 in 2004. Employed as Diabetes Coordinator for the Pecos Valley Medical Center in New Mexico. One of the first 30 people ever to use Medtronic’s Guardian continuous glucose monitoring system. Now rocks a DexCom and a Cozmo insulin pump. Author of three books on diabetes, including Taming The Tiger andBeyond Fingersticks. Lives in Las Vegas, New Mexico, with his wife and son, and one too many cats.

Latest Entries

By AmyT on March 2, 2015
The Canada-based makers of an exciting no-needle emergency rescue glucagon that you can puff up your nose have come out of stealth mode, with a brand-new website for the company called Locemia (a mashup of “low blood sugar” and “hypoglycemia”)...

By WilD on Feb. 28, 2015
Welcome back to our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D'Mine!. This week, Wil Dubois answers questions about the mix of exercise and metformin, and addresses what you can do when glucose testing and insulin dosing seem like just too much.

By AmyT on Feb. 27, 2015
February may be a shorter month, but that doesn't mean our Diabetes Online Community (DOC) was short of amazing content. We wanted to share the love from the diabetes blogosphere, so here are the posts that caught our eye...

By AmyT on February 26, 2015
We're thrilled to hear from a D-Mom named Polina Bryson in California, who's extremely determined to "get it" when it comes to understanding her young daughter's reality with both T1D and Celiac disease.

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